What’s Up
I’ve been thrilled to have a big surge in visitors to my blog in the past week or so. Thanks to Mike Licht of Notions Capital. It would be worth visiting his blog for the illustrations alone (how does he find time to create them? I ask) but it has lots more besides including a regular round up of food blogs called Blogs with Bite. And then that got picked up by Mark Bittman in Bitten for the NY Times.
Plus thanks to a number of others who have mentioned me in their blogs.
Plus Paul Roberts, like Steve Sando before him, loved his Guanajuato meal at Las Mercedes. Let’s hear it for Guanajuato cuisine, all too often dismissed in Mexico. (And check out the rest of Paul’s blog).
I need to do some housekeeping on my blog (is there nothing that does not require a regular tune up?). Then I have a mass of things I want to blog about. They include
Bread, as always (including follow ups to William Rubel’s two posts, more on ensaimadas and semitas, and a call to action on Mexican breads)
A Catholic case study in changing food habits
Another pork dish, this one with a global reach, but interesting connections perhaps with chicharrón and carnitas (and long-standing response to Adam Balic and Mexico Bob here).
Afro-Mexican cuisines
Solar cookers
The spectacular agua for Viernes de Dolores (tomorrow) in Guanajuato
Some gorgeous cooking pots from Jalisco
First encounters with French cooking
And of course the occasional rant on food politics.
If you have requests or suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
Especially looking forward to Afro-Mexican cuisines, First encounters with French cooking and rants on food politics.
Rachel. I would be interested in anything you could write about what might be called the ‘psychology of food’. This for example seemed to be a dimension that we did not really discuss in some of your earlier posts about obesity.
I don’t mean to get into the whole area of eating disorders but something about why food is important to us and why we like the food we do. This obviously has a lot to do with culture, and I also think there is a psychological dimension.
I also find your rants about food politics interesting. I have not yet understood why you seem to be opposed to the whole local, small-scale and slow food movement. It seems to be that large-scale industrial systems of food production have a lot to answer for in terms of environmental damage, let alone the whole controversy about how healthy this food is
And thanks for the mention of my blog.
warm regards Paul
Hello Rachel, I found your blog searching for historical studies of Mexican food. Could you please write about Nopal.
Thank you and congrats on your blog.
Marisol, Paul, Ji Young and others who were kind enough to reply, all this and more coming up–that’ll take, what, a year?
Congrats on the surge in traffic Rachel. Look forward to your posts.